Expense optimization, budgeting, frugality, and intentional spending. These are all strategies that we have implemented in our journey to Financial Independence. By optimizing and removing non-value added expenses we’ve learned what are the things that we truly value. Learning to spend intentionally awards you the freedom to be happy with less.
But it is not all about what you can cut out of your monthly expenses. Once all the noise of non-value added expenses is gone, you get to really enjoy the fruit of your labor!
My first memories of tracking expenses go back to when I was about 10 years old, maybe younger. I remember having a kid’s savings account where they gave us a little rectangular notebook, very similar to a checkbook. It was fun for me to do all the math! From an early age, I understood that …
I’ll start by saying that I think technology is simply amazing. We live in times where we are more connected than ever, more aware of what is happening around the world which leads to a ton of good…and bad. But this post is not about the impact technology has had on humanity. This post is …
We Lowered our Cellphone Bill by Over $100/month! Read More »
In this day and age, the internet is a basic necessity for middle-class American families. We rely on the internet to do homework, pay our bills, and funnily enough to write about how to get cheaper internet rates. As long as we have good enough internet that it’s not painfully slow we can survive. Have …
